ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2024
Gaze shifts during wayfinding decisions.
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Abstract
When following a route through a building or city, we must decide at every intersection in which direction to proceed. The present study investigates whether such decisions are preceded by a gradual gaze shift in the eventually chosen direction. Participants were instructed to repeatedly follow a route through a sequence of rooms by choosing, in each room, the correct door from among three possible doors. All rooms looked alike, except for a room-specific cue, which participants could associate with the direction to take. We found that on 88.9% of trials, the gaze shifted from the cue to the chosen door by a single saccade, without interim fixations. On the few trials where interim fixations occurred, their spatiotemporal characteristics differed significantly from that expected in case of a consistent shift. Both findings concordantly provide no support for the hypothesized gradual gaze shift. The infrequent interim fixations might rather serve the purpose to avoid large-amplitude saccades between cue and door.
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